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An awfully sweet, naively angelic, charismatic and opinionated seven-year-old sat next to her father on the couch while Mommy cleared and cleaned the table after dinner. The little girl glanced over at her mother whose face looked a bit peeved and worn with her mascara unintentionally smudged beneath her lower eyelid, bags below that, and…

I’m sorry, but this seat is reserved, and unfortunately for you, you will not be sitting next to my daughter tonight. This seat next to me, it’s reserved for my best friend, and that’s her. And, that open seat that you see next to her, that’s reserved for someone special, and while I am sure you…

This morning an old picture of you popped up on my Facebook feed. It was from 4 years ago. Four years that have gone by way too fast, with me wasting way too much time giving attention to things other than you. When I saw the picture, I saw your fine blonde hair covered by…

Are you smarter than a first-grader? The answer is yes. (Well, we hope.) Yet, recently something happened that got me thinking about how right children have some things and just how wrong us adults have it. My daughter came home from school a few weeks back with a worksheet in her folder. It was likely…

A “damsel in distress”. You never want to be one. You are also probably really sick and tired of seeing them in real-life or portrayed in movies, and you darn sure don’t want your daughter to ever be one. I’ve posted a lot of articles about raising daughters. I have two, and more than anything I…

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I am genuinely and embarrassingly authentic. I feel every word and live every sentence that I write. I would love for you to co-travel with me on a journey through parenthood, marriage, and self-discovery.